L’orang-outang, l’esclave et l’humain : une querelle des corps en régime colonial

This article analyzes the impact that the shift in medical practices – appropriated in different disciplinary frameworks, such as philosophical and natural histories – had on the British debate about slavery in the 1770s. It focuses on the uses of the debates about the orangutan, whose humanization...

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Main Author: Silvia Sebastiani
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Centre de Recherches Historiques
Series:L'Atelier du CRH
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/acrh/5265